The New Audi TT... *wipes drool*

Katie's Gift

...I bought a gift for your birthday long time ago. I intended to send you a can of plant seed to keep you company in a cold place. I was proud of my idea before I know it's illegal by air . And it may be a silly idea because the weather is so cold in your place. Anyway,I plant it in my office now and I think of you everytime I see it.

THANKS KATIE! You're the Best! :)

Two New Top Favo(u)rites!

...and their both from Japan!
I was channel surfing late one night and came across NHK playing music vids and these guys popped up...

(Wikipedia entry...)

PE'Z is a Japanese jazz instrumental band consisting of five young men. It is dubbed "The Samurai Jazz Band." The group members are Ohyama "B.M.W" Wataru (trumpet, born in Kanagawa), Kadota "Jaw" Kousuke (sax, born in Ehime), Nirehara Masahiro (wood bass, born in Niigata), Hiizumi "HZM" Masayuki (keyboard, piano etc., born in Kobe) and Kou (drums, born in Tokyo).

PE'Z began their music careers playing live on the streets of Shibuya in the center of Tokyo during the summer of 2000. Word of mouth spread quickly and they began pulling in large
crowds which sometimes totaled up to 600.

check out their vids on youtube...

Collective Mode - PE'Z
Akatsuki - PE'Z
Dry Dry Dry - PE'Z

NEXT!

Was watching the Miss Universe competition, which interestingly enough Mr Donald Trump actually has a stake in... ANYWAY.
SHE should've won. Miss PR looked like a man. SHE is THE Miss Mingter's Universe! DUN DUN DUN! MISS JAPAN UNIVERSE - Kurara Chibana

*drool...*
going to bed now.
g'nite

Flickr Pics Updated

Honolulu a Yonder

I have uploaded more selected Hawaii pics to my flickr album. Let me know if you want any of them in high qualities. Enjoy!

Somewhere Over Japan

The Lighthouse

Makapu‘u Point Lighthouse, Oahu, HI.

The Lighthouse

The rocky ledge runs far into the sea,
and on its outer point, some miles away,
the lighthouse lifts its massive masonry,
A pillar of fire by night, of cloud by day.

Even at the distance I can see the tides,
Up heaving, break unheard along its base,
A speechless wrath, that rises and subsides
in the white tip and tremor of the face.

And as the evening darkens, lo! how bright,
through the deep purple of the twilight air,
Beams forth the sudden radiance of its light,
with strange, unearthly splendor in the glare!

No one alone; from each projecting cape
And perilous reef along the ocean's verge,
Starts into life a dim, gigantic shape,
Holding its lantern o'er the restless surge.

Like the great giant Christopher it stands
Upon the brink of the tempestuous wave,
Wading far out among the rocks and sands,
The night o'er taken mariner to save.

And the great ships sail outward and return
Bending and bowing o'er the billowy swells,
And ever joyful, as they see it burn
They wave their silent welcome and farewells.

They come forth from the darkness, and their
sails
Gleam for a moment only in the blaze,
And eager faces, as the light unveils
Gaze at the tower, and vanish while they gaze.

The mariner remembers when a child,
on his first voyage, he saw it fade and sink
And when returning from adventures wild,
He saw it rise again o'er ocean's brink.

Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same,
Year after year, through all the silent night
Burns on forevermore that quenchless flame,
Shines on that inextinguishable light!

It sees the ocean to its bosom clasp
The rocks and sea-sand with the kiss of peace;
It sees the wild winds lift it in their grasp,
And hold it up, and shake it like a fleece.

The startled waves leap over it; the storm
Smites it with all the scourges of the rain,
And steadily against its solid form
press the great shoulders of the hurricane.

The sea-bird wheeling round it, with the din
of wings and winds and solitary cries,
Blinded and maddened by the light within,
Dashes himself against the glare, and dies.

A new Prometheus, chained upon the rock,
Still grasping in his hand the fire of love,
it does not hear the cry, nor heed the shock,
but hails the mariner with words of love.

"Sail on!" it says: "sail on, ye stately ships!"
And with your floating bridge the ocean span;
Be mine to guard this light from all eclipse.
Be yours to bring man neared unto man.

author
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Manana Island, Off Makapuu Point, Oahu, HI

Flippity Flip

Finally got this RollOver Javascript to work! The script I got from various websites were right all along... just that I had placed it in the wrong part of the html! Silly silly me.
Anyway, here's something cool I found a week back.

Stare at the dot for 30 seconds. Then, without moving your eyes, move the mouse over the image.The image will look like it's in color until you move your eyes.


White Flower, Lucy's Garden, Maui, Hawaii.

Pua Mae ʻole

Here are some selected flower pics from my recent trip to Hawaii...Enjoy!

Running Route

Check out my 5k running route back in Singapore here!



This is a runner's dream app come true... Gmap-pedometer.

Sunrise

Since I wasn't very good at blogging while in Hawaii... this will be the first of a series of pics based on differen themes.

Sunrise at Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii.